Domains Defined
One of the most crucial prerequisites for creating a successful web presence is the domain name. It is what people will perceive first when they visit your website and what they will associate you with. The domain name should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that notifies your visitors what the site is about.
Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)
A domain name traditionally consists of 2 fragments - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain. There are several categories of Top-Level Domain Names that you should examine prior to choosing the domain name you desire. Your choice should rest on the goal of your site and on its target visitors. Let's check the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most popular Top-Level Domain Names intended to designate a particular intention - .com (commercial entities), .net (networks), .biz (corporations), .info (informative web sites), .org (organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (individuals or families), .pro (specific professions), etc. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domains cover most realms of life, so you should opt for the one that would portray the aim of your web site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domain names, but some of them contain additional requirements to prove that you are eligible to keep such a domain name (.mobi and .pro, for example).
Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)
The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domains, are country-specific Top-Level Domains. Each country has its own ccTLD. Selecting such a domain name is good if your target group of visitors is from a certain country. Many people would rather purchase commodities or services from a local site, and if your target is Canada, for instance, choosing a .ca domain name could increase the visits to your web page.
URL Redirects
You can register a number of domain names, which can redirect your web site's visitors to a certain web page such as domain.com, for example. This would boost the traffic and decrease the possibility of someone pinching your web site visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain with a different Top-Level Domain Name - if you are not using a trademark.
Name Servers (NSs)
Each and every Top-Level Domain Name has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, a.k.a. DNS records) reveal where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the hosting supplier whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is using at present. You can change the NSs of your domain whenever you want. You can have your domain registered with one company and get the web hosting service itself from another. Thus, if you register your domain name and encounter decent website hosting packages someplace else at a later time, you can point your domain name to the current company's DNSs right away.
Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)
On the whole, as long as your domain name uses a certain set of name servers, all its domain name records will lead to the same website hosting distributor. Some web hosting firms, though, permit you to modify certain DNS records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an IP address, which shows on which web hosting server your web page is situated, whereas the MX records display which hosting server handles the mail accounts related to your domain name. For example, if you engage a new site designer and he designs an .ASP web page that will be located on his own Windows web hosting server, you may desire to change only the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Hence, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web hosting server, but your email box accounts or any sub-domain names such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux website hosting account. The .ASP platform is developed by Microsoft and calls for a Windows web hosting server, even though a Linux hosting server would be far more reliable.
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Only a few web hosting companies enable you to modify specific records and very often this an additional paid service. With us, you get a huge collection of Top-Level Domain Names to choose from and you can modify all records or forward the domain names through a forwarding tool at no additional cost.